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For subscription information, email gridfree@gridtoday.com All comments regarding content should be sent to: grideditor@gridtoday.com -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 700001) HPTC Success Story Performance Computing in Norway IN THIS ISSUE: [ ] 100005) INTRODUCTION TO GRIDtoday [ ] 100001) THE COMPUTER PARADOX AND GRID COMPUTING [ ] 100003) RESEARCHERS ACHIEVE PRODUCTION GRID BREAKTHROUGH [ ] 700002) Fujitsu's Grid Solution for the Sciences SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 100001) THE COMPUTER PARADOX AND GRID COMPUTING by Ahmar Abbas, Managing Director, Grid Computing Partners Ahmar Abbas, talks about the paradox of having slow US productivity growth in technology along with the proliferation of desktop and other computing resources in US companies and homes. [ ] 100002) DESPITE CONFUSION, INFINIBAND STILL HAS A BRIGHT FUTURE by Mike Bernhardt When Intel announced it was discontinuing development of its InfiniBand Host Channel Adapters, heads turned and the future of InfiniBand was questioned by a number of editors. [ ] 100003) RESEARCHERS ACHIEVE PRODUCTION GRID BREAKTHROUGH Physics researchers have carried out the first production-quality simulated data generation on a data Grid. [ ] 100004) AN INTERVIEW WITH SUN'S WOLFGANG GENTZSCH by Alan Beck, Editor-in-Chief Sun's Wolfgang Gentzsch talked with GRIDtoday about his company and its relationship to Grid Technology. [ ] 100005) INTRODUCTION TO GRIDtoday by John Hurley, Editor-at-Large GRIDtoday's Editor-at-Large offers an overview of where Grid computing has come from -- and where it is heading through the opening years of a new century. [ ] 100006) WHO NEEDS SUPERCOMPUTERS? by Darnell Little in Chicago and Ira Sager Grid software lets companies tap other machines in their network for extra computing muscle. [ ] 700003) PLATFORM COMPUTING MAKES EQUITY INVESTMENT IN POWERLLEL, STRENGTHENING FINANCIAL SERVICES EXPERTISE SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE [ ] 100007) IBM NAMES FIVE FELLOWS, COMPANY'S HIGHEST TECHNICAL HONOR IBM bestowed its most prestigious technical honor on five of its top scientists, researchers and developers, naming them IBM Fellows in recognition of their continued innovation and outstanding contributions to the information technology industry. [ ] 100008) HP, IDC AND PLATFORM COMPUTING HOST GRID SEMINARS Senior executives from HP, Platform Computing and industry analyst firm International Data Corporation (IDC) will host executive Grid Computing seminars in London, New York City and San Francisco. [ ] 100009) IBM RECRUITS STUDENTS FOR GRID COMPUTING EFFORT by Ed Scannell, InfoWorld.com IBM will go with a youth movement as one way to accelerate its grid computing initiatives as the company kicks off its Extreme Blue summer intern program. [ ] 100010) NPACI ROCKS SIMPLIFIES DEPLOYMENT OF INTEL CLUSTERS Developers from the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego, have released NPACI Rocks 2.2.1, which extends the easy-to-use open-source cluster toolkit to Linux clusters powered by Intel Itanium processors. [ ] 100011) SUN SAYS BUSINESS "GETS" GRID COMPUTING Sun Microsystems has announced version 5.3 of its gridware, which aims to keep track of computing grids and focus their power for more commercial and mainstream companies and organizations. [ ] 700004) SGI Demonstrates Long-Distance Visual Serving Across Canada -- Pioneering Visualization for the Grid SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS [ ] 100012) AVAKI'S GRID ARCHITECTURE IDENTIFIES BIOLOGICAL DATA At the BIO 2002 Conference in Toronto, Avaki Corporation, a pioneer in global grid software solutions, announced it has co-authored a proposed standard for identifying biologically significant data in life sciences applications. [ ] 100013) 4SC DECIDES TO USE IBM LINUX CLUSTER TECHNOLOGY The biotechnology company 4SC AG has decided to use IBM Linux Cluster technology for drug discovery under a collaboration. [ ] 100014) NEW SUPERNOVA MODELS TAKE ON THIRD DIMENSION Astrophysicists from Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, have created the first 3-D computer simulations of the spectacular explosion that marks the death of a massive star. BREAKING NEWS ============================================================== SECURITY [ ] 100015) Intersil Announces Security Solution For Wireless LAN [ ] 100016) White House Officials Headline National Cybersecurity Tour PLATFORMS [ ] 100017) RackSaver Leaps Forward In Supercomputing Technology NETWORKING [ ] 100018) The Cheap Way to Broadband [ ] 100019) Novell to Buy SilverStream for $212 Million [ ] 100020) OMG Model Driven Architecture Named Technology Trend [ ] 100021) Purdue, IU Create New 'Tera-Scale' Supercomputer Grid [ ] 100022) TriCN Introduces QDR SRAM Solution STORAGE [ ] 100023) CardioNow Selects A S2A 6000 Silicon Storage Appliance OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 100024) Platform Ships Management Solution for Grid Computing [ ] 100025) Platform Enhances Powerful Grid Computing Solutions [ ] 100026) Sun Delivers Next Level of Sun's Open Grid Architecture GENERAL [ ] 100027) Platform Computing Makes Equity Investment in Powerllel [ ] 100028) Sun Tops IDC Supercomputer Rankings in Enterprise Category [ ] 100029) International Supercomputer Conference Announcement QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 100008) "We expect Grids to become a significant architecture going forward, particularly within corporations looking to bridge complex organizational boundaries, and manage escalating IT costs, while improving productivity and collaboration." -- Debra Goldfarb, Group vice president, Worldwide Systems and Servers, IDC CONFERENCE CALENDAR ======================================================== GRIDtoday is proud to be affiliated with the following organizations: Global Grid Forum The Globus Project The Leading Edge of Grid Computing Developing Fundamental Technologies for Researchers Worldwide for Computational Grids http://www.gridforum.org http://www.globus.org [ ] 700) Conferences & Seminars GRIDtoday INFORMATION ====================================================== [ ] 701) Subscriptions & Removals [ ] 702) About GRIDtoday [ ] 703) Index of Back Issues [ ] 706) FAQ / Contact Information [ ] 707) Submitting Letters and Articles _____________________________________________________________________ | | | Full background information on all sponsoring companies | | Firms marked with an * have updated their info in the last 30 days | | | | | | [ ] 921) SGI [ ] 934) Hewlett-Packard | | [ ] 527) Intel [ ] 537) PLATFORM | | [ ] 909) Fujitsu [ ] 942) Sun Microsystems | | [ ] 539) Microsoft | | | | | | For sponsorship information contact: gridads@gridtoday.com | |_____________________________________________________________________| GRIDtoday welcomes bylined comments for publication. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RETRIEVING ARTICLES There are 2 ways to retrieve articles: (1) Send a blank email to gridmore@gridtoday.com . 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